• TOPICS
• What Are You Any Good For?
• The crisis of the permanently unemployed. Finding "value" for human beings that is not a viable commodity, a sellable product, or a marketable talent.
• Will Workers Be Left Behind in a Green Transition?
• http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090518/uehlein

• LINKS
• America’s 20% Unemployment Rate
• http://www.sandersresearch.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1403&Itemid=97
• "In the USA, 35% of healthy Americans ages 16-64 are unemployed, but what does that word mean? Millions of women are unemployed as they choose to stay home to raise families. Nevertheless, 25% of healthy American men ages 16-64 are unemployed, yet the U.S. Government reports an unemployment rate of just 8.1%."
• Use Jobless Time to Build Better World - Barbara Ehrenreich
• http://www.truthout.org/051209LA?n
• "But the first step, as in any 12-step program, is to overcome denial. Job searching is not a job; retraining is not a panacea. You may be poorer than you've ever been, but you are also freer - to express anger and urgency, to dream and create, to get together with others and conspire to build a better world."
• Green Not Mean
• http://greennotmean.today.com/2008/12/28/green-jobs-revolution/
• "We need a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty.."
• http://www.greenforall.org/splash
• Van Jones
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urKsSeBkdQw&feature=PlayList&p=B43873F35253E5A7&index=0
• Green evangelist.
• The Geography of Jobs
• http://tipstrategies.com/archive/geography-of-jobs/
• "The animated map makes clear that this recession has not treated all regions equally. But no matter where you are in the country, these trying times require a response."

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